Helen from Mermaids has started a Twitter thread smearing Kiri Tunks, Anne Ruzylo and Woman's Place UK

PREVENT referrals? Are they on glue?

Apart from reporting the petition I'm not inclined to give Helen much airtime to be honest.

If you look at her twitter feed, though she may have a couple of thousand followers, her tweets are not being robustly endorsed and retweeted.

Most get less than 10 likes. The odd one seems to resonate on occasion to hundred or so, but the vast majority of popular tweets on her time line are re-tweets from other accounts.

I obviously don't know the reason for this; perhaps her twitter bubble is so restricted, she's actually reducing her own audience or if people simply don't feel overly strongly about what she's saying?

Either way, unless she's libelling someone I think it's best to leave her to her own devices. She has a right to free speech even if I don't agree with her on many things she tweets.

I simply don't believe she's actually that influential in the grand scheme of things and frankly I'd rather see the views stand, so that people who can influence the debate have something to reference when valid points are being raised about ROGD and potential side effects of puberty blockers (and Mermaids denying/minimising such) so they can then reach their own conclusions about the appropriateness of Mermaids inclusion in policy formation and the gravitas their advice should be afforded.

I wonder why it is still up? It has 288 signatures now.

Reported the petition.

there's been some attempts by some of the more determined propagandists on twitter to draw parallels with the process of 'radicalisation' and people here starting to ask questions...

What do they mean about Prevent referrals? Do they mean referring the "TERFy colleagues"?

WTGLWGH

R0wantrees my thoughts entirely. Helen has been quite personal in her attacks on people from here on twitter, calling them all sorts of names and making spurious police complaints about them.

Her delightful tactic of blocking people, unblocking to stalk them and then tweeting all manner of shit about them is particularly kindly and conducive to conciliation. Oh, wait.

Moreover she is someone so entrenched in her position that her talking about calming things down is bizarre in the extreme. "Calming things down" can only mean getting us to agree with her.

Blimey, donnabee has another plan. I will be off for a fag break when she comes by again.

I hadn’t realised how many ‘concerns’ they had managed to concoct.

Like this as well. Dismissing and minimising the very valid concerns that people have is never going to pave the way for a solution through educated and thoughtful debate.

"How do we de-escalate this situation"

A good question, asked apparently without irony, from a woman who called the police about a tweet she thought was too personal.

The idea that we've been stoked up by the media! 🤣

The media haven't reported anything but the barest minimum!!

It is very Orwellian. Be intriguing to see what the education plan will be. When they've thought of one that is. Aside from the desperate attempt trying to educate our children through schools.

'this whole thing has been blown out of proportion'... hmmm, I would suggest anyone wondering about this should have a look at MimmyMum's twitter feed over the last 6 weeks and consider the nature of fuel

It's quite sinister isn't it?

We must be "re-educated" - all very Orwellian. I think one of the greatest things about MN is the number of highly educated women here.

No you didn't upstart. Loving the How do we educate them comment. Think Helen can start by educating herself rather than beginning from the premise that she is right and those who disagree (for very good reasons) are wrong.

I am lol'ing a bit at the Birds Eye and Tesco smear attempts though - the TRAs must be a miniscuke proportion of their demographiic, never mind us. I've just been to Tesco. Heaving as usual, with all sorts of people.

She's getting worried

Which thread did you mean to post it on Crow?

Oops, posted on the wrong thread

Woke up this morning to find this thread linked to Twitter;
twitter.com/mimmymum/status/983238738611490816

Reported, this and the LibDem twitter feed are shocking. I'm totally fed up being dismissed as a rabid alt right loon...couldn't be further from that if I tried

290 now. 😭

288 have signed already.

Mumsnetters unite!

WE.

ARE

LEGION!

Get this libellous and harrassing piece of crap off the internet!!

Timothy Swann has updated the petition with an 'alert' to Twitter thread encouraging people to report the petition.

Still there though...